Buckle



(No Model.)

E. A. DANIEL.

BUCKLE.

No. 306,064. Patented Oot. '7, 1884.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ELLISON ARMISTEAD DANIEL, OF DUNCANVILLE, TEXAS.

BUCKLE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 306,064, dated October'7, 1884.

Application liled March 1S), 1884. (No model.)

T0 a/ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, ELLIsoN A. DANIEL, a citizen of the United States,residing at Duncanville, in the county of Dallas and State of Texas,have invented a new and useful Buckle, of which the following is aspecification, reference being had to'the accompanying drawings.

This invention has relation to buckles for bridles, harness-breeching,the.; and it consists in the construction and novel arrangement ofparts, as will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointedout in the claims appended.

Figure l is a view in perspective of my improved buckle. Fig. 2 is avertical longitudinal sectional view of the same. Fig. 3 is a similarview of a modification, showing three buckle-bars and their clasps andsupportingbars; and Fig. 4 is a similarI view of a modication in whichfour tongue-bars and their attendantlmechanism are used. Fig. 5 is aview in perspective of the buckle with the Referring by letter to theaccompanying drawings, a designates the buckle-frame,

which is preferably made in elongated rectangular form in plan view, andhas its under face near each end inclined upwardly and inwardly betweenthe integral side bars, b b, the inner edges of the inclined portionsbeing beveled inwardly 4and upwardly, as shown.

In Fig. 2, c and d designate the two tonguebars cast integral with orhaving fixed bearings in the side bars, b b. `c e designate thetransverse bars on which the hinged clasps j f have their bearings, andh h. represent transverse bars, upon which the inner edges of the hingedclasps f f rest when the straps are in place, and by which they areprevented from being drawn through the opening in the buckleframe. Thetongue bars in this gure are shown, one with one tongue and one with twotongues, respectively, t and t" i. These tongues may be regulated as tonumber to suit the straps upon which the buckle is to be used. Thetongue-bars c and d are far enough apart in the buckle-frame to permitthe strap secured by the tongue-bar c, having two tongues in thisinstance, to pass between the tongue-bars and out under the tongue-bar dto any desired distance or length. The second strap is buckled to thetongue-bar d, and passes out lover the tongue-bar c and its clasp f, andbetween said clasp and the beveled edge of the buckle-frame at that endany desired length, so that the two straps workperfectly andentirelyindependent of each other.

In some instances I may use only a single tongue-bar, one hinge-clasp,and one rest for said clasp. In others I may desire three or even fourtongue-bars, clasps, and rests; but in every case a single buckle-frameonly is used to sustain the parts. NVhere these parts are duplicated,triplicated, or quadruplicated, the several straps all workindependently of each other, as before stated. The double tongues on thetongue-bars are of importance,

as they hold the strap evenly in the buckleframe, and may be used on allof the tonguebars, if deemed desirable.

This buckle possesses simplicity, durability,

cheapness, and general efficiency.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, anddesire to secure by Letters Patent of the United States, is-

1. In a harness-buckle, the combination, with the frame (t, providedwith a tongue-bar having two tongues thereon and a tongue-bar having asingle tongue thereon, of a clasp-rest and a hinged clasp near oppositeends of the buckle-frame, substantially as specified.

-2. In a harness or bridle buckle,'the combination, with thebuckle-frame, of a transverse clasp-rest and a transverse hinged claspadapted to rest thereon when the clasp is closed, substantially asspecified.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own I have hereto affixedmy signature in presence of twowitnesses.

ELLISON ARMISTEAI) DANIEL.

Vitnesses:

Jo. H. STEWART, J. L. MILLER,

